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Some of Your Blood

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by Theodore Sturgeon


  Sturgeon with his third wife, Marion McGahan, and (left to right) daughter Tandy (b. 1954), son Robin (b. 1952), and daughter Noël (b. 1956).

  An early draft of Sturgeon’s 1957 story “The Other Celia.” (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.)

  Sturgeon’s notes for his iconic book More Than Human. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.)

  Notes, dated 6/12/66 and entitled “Spock Blows Top,” for an episode of Star Trek that Sturgeon wrote, ultimately titled “Amok Time.” (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.)

  Sturgeon in his library.

  From left to right, author N. K. Jemisin, Noël Sturgeon—Ted’s daughter and trustee of the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust—and author Samuel R. Delany at a May 4, 2011, tribute to Sturgeon sponsored by the New York Review of Science Fiction. (Photo courtesy of Marc Blackman.)

  The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, which was designed by Elden Tefft and is presented annually by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction for the best short story of the year. (Photo courtesy of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction.)

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 1961 by Theodore Sturgeon

  Copyright renewed © 1988 by The Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust

  Afterword copyright 1986 by Stephen R. Donaldson

  cover design by Mauricio Diaz

  978-1-4532-9545-8

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  THE COMPLETE STORIES SERIES

  I. The Ultimate Egoist (1994)

  II. Microcosmic God (1995)

  III. Killdozer! (1996)

  IV. Thunder and Roses (1997)

  V. The Perfect Host (1998)

  VI. Baby Is Three (1999)

  VII. A Saucer of Loneliness (2000)

  VIII. Bright Segment (2002)

  IX. And Now the News… (2003)

  X. The Man Who Lost the Sea (2005)

  XI. The Nail and the Oracle (2007)

  XII. Slow Sculpture (2009)

  XIII. Case and the Dreamer (2010)

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